Published June 2004

People Watching

BIOTECH
Michelle Burris has been appointed to the board of directors of Bothell’s Sonus Pharmaceuticals. She is senior vice president and chief financial officer of Corixa Corp. of Seattle.

CONSTRUCTION
Steve Otis has been promoted to field operations manager at University Mechanical Contractors of Mukilteo. He previously was senior project manager. In addition, Maria Boyer has been promoted to construction manager, Mike McNeil has been designated purchasing and expediting manager and Brett Endres has been named chief estimator.

Tim Sexton has been appointed production coordinator at HCI Steel Building Systems Inc. of Arlington. Also, Gary Watson has been appointed to customer service and John Spain to the engineering department.

EDUCATION
Vance Roley will be interim dean of the University of Washington Business School while the university searches for a replacement for Yash Gupta, who is leaving to become dean at the University of Southern California. Roley now is associate dean for academic and faculty affairs and a finance professor.

ENGINEERING & ENVIRONMENTAL
Chris Johnson, a senior mechanical designer for CDi Engineers of Lynnwood, has successfully completed the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Accreditation Examination and is now a LEED Accredited Professional.

Jeff Lundstrom has been hired by Perteet Engineering as the director of its new highway design division. He formerly worked at the Washington state Department of Transportation.

FINANCIAL
Ruth Bagge has been hired as vice president and manager of Cascade Bank’s main office branch in downtown Everett. Bagge has 25 years of banking experience, including positions as vice president, branch manager, loan officer and marketing manager.

Kathleen Cotton, president of Cotton Financial Advisors Inc. of Lynnwood, has been elected to the west region board of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors. She will serve a two-year term.

Investment representative Jessica Pavish, formerly of Piper Jaffray, has joined the investment firm of Edward Jones. Her office is at 5129 Evergreen Way, Suite G, in Everett.

Frontier Bank recently promoted a number of staff members, including Tammi Cross to assistant vice president/assistant auditor of the audit department, Holly Kluin to assistant vice president/manager of the bank’s Lake Stevens office, Cathy Moylan to accounting officer of Frontier Financial Corp., Dirk Muyskens to assistant vice president/commercial loan officer of the bank’s Bothell office, Robin Reinig to senior vice president/manager of the bank’s Marysville office, Mel Takehara to vice president/commercial loan officer of the bank’s Marysville office and Julie Sager to training officer of the training department.

HEALTH CARE
Cheryl Heiner is a new certified medical assistant having graduated from the program at Eton Technical Institute in Everett.

Michael Lloyd has joined The Everett Clinic as the new director of risk management. Lloyd, of Mill Creek, has more than 20 years of experience in the field.

David Newman is the director of the Lynnwood drug treatment facility of CRC Health Corp. He has worked as a counselor and supervisor in the field for 10 years and been certified by the Chemical Dependency Certification Board.

HOSPITALITY
Jeremy Pichler of Everett recently received the Ray Kroc Award, an annual performance-based award that recognizes the top 1 percent of McDonald’s restaurant managers in the country. Pichler, manager of the McDonald’s location in Woodinville, has worked for the company since 1997, when he started out as a crew member. After less than a year he was promoted to manager.

Eddie Tadlock has been hired as general manager for the Lynnwood Convention Center now under construction.

INSURANCE
Ray Pel, an Everett Allstate agent, has received the company’s Hands in the Community award for his work with the American Cancer Society. Pel participates in the society’s Relay for Life. As part of the recognition, the society will get a $500 donation from Allstate.

MARKETING
Sales representatives Jay Christensen, Ed Hall, Kathryn Schultz and Bill Schwartz recently joined MacGregor Publishing Co. and have begun advertising sales for its new Everett and Vicinity Directory and South Snohomish County Directory, as well as the 5-year-old North Snohomish County Directory.

MEDIA
Nancy Stewart has joined the Snohomish County Business Journal as an advertising account executive. Stewart previously was an advertising representative with Harmon Publishing.

NONPROFITS
The Snohomish County Chapter of the American Red Cross has five new members on its board of directors, including Sabrina Layman, a partner in the law firm of Brewe Layman in Everett; Leslie Hynes, a public information officer for Snohomish County Fire District No. 1; Mar Tobiason, a volunteer member of the local Red Cross Disaster Action Team; Dr. Steve Dahlberg, a family-practice doctor at The Everett Clinic’s Harbour Pointe clinic; and Don Schwab, a captain with the Everett Fire Department.

Deborah Petritz and John McAlpine have been hired by Catholic Community Services of Everett as recruiters of volunteers. Petritz will work for the Retired Senior Volunteer Program, and McAlpine is looking for people to drive elderly or disabled clients in rural Snohomish County to doctors’ visits and on essential errands.

REAL ESTATE
Diane McGraw and Gwen Piscopo have joined Windermere Real Estate’s Mill Creek office as sales associates. Both are new to the industry.

Colleen Purvis has joined Windermere’s Everett office as a sales associate. She previously was a supervisor with Verizon Information Services in Everett.

Susan Toms, formerly employed in restaurant management, and Dorrine Zelmer, previously a technical writer, have joined Windermere’s Monroe office as sales associates; and sales associate Teri Powell, previously involved with business telecommunications, has joined the company’s Mukilteo office.

RETAIL/SALES
Amanda Depot of Mukilteo has been named to Avon Products Inc.’s Circle of Excellence for district sales managers. The award goes to those among the top 10 percent of district managers nationally for sales growth.

Armand and Kelly Schommer have been named sales representatives for CleanSpace Northwest, a dealer of crawl-space encapsulation systems.

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